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The Emmys, television's highest-profile awards, could have seized the moment with Thursday's nominations to fully acknowledge the wealth of diverse talent adding to the medium's vibrancy and relevance. There was recognition of stellar actresses Taraji...

The elaborate fantasy saga "Game of Thrones" received a leading 24 Emmy Awards nominations Thursday, its stature apparently untouched by backlash over a female character's rape scene.
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Stephen Colbert has temporarily taken over a public-access TV show in southeastern Michigan in an episode that featured rapper Eminem.
Colbert hosted the latest episode of "Only in Monroe," which airs in the community of about 21,000 people. He...

Who is the real Stephen Colbert?
It's the question on everyone's mind -- including Colbert's -- as he prepares to take over "The Late Show."
The comedian made an appearance at CBS' upfront presentation to advertisers Wednesday at...

Money from the auction of the desk and set of "The Colbert Report" will help thousands of school kids in comedian Stephen Colbert's native South Carolina.
Colbert announced on Thursday that, along with donations from Share Fair Nation and...

Less than two months after the departure of Stephen Colbert and the "The Colbert Report" and three weeks following the premiere of Larry Wilmore's "The Nightly Show," Jon Stewart, the man whose success made those shows possible,...

With Jon Stewart leaving his post on "The Daily Show," the joke may be on Comedy Central.
The departure of Stewart — who announced on Tuesday that he will exit his signature mock-news program sometime later this year — presents the...

Jon Stewart, who turned his biting and free-wheeling humor into an unlikely source of news and analysis for viewers of "The Daily Show," will leave as host this year, Comedy Central said Tuesday.
His departure was announced by Comedy...

Larry Wilmore, formerly the Senior Black Correspondent on "The Daily Show" -- a fake title for a fake news show -- Monday night assumed the real title of host of "The Nightly Show," Comedy Central's quite promising replacement series...

To celebrate the end, he first turned his show over to the president, then went head to head with a dragon. He sold nine years of tchotchkes at a yard sale, then raffled off his desk and fireplace for charity. And for his final show, he murdered death,...

Stephen Colbert takes his final bow on "The Colbert Report" tonight with the 1,477th episode of the Comedy Central show that made him a star.Colbert made his debut as the bombastic conservative commentator on Oct. 17, 2005, after eight years...

Watching the first episode of "The Colbert Report," I remember thinking, He cannot possibly sustain this.
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Kendrick Lamar debuted an untitled new song during "The Colbert Report" on Tuesday night, capping the show’s nine-year run of musical guests with a devastating, slow-build track that equaled his memorable performance of “I” a few months back...

Who is the real Stephen Colbert? He’ll have plenty of time to figure it out.
The new CBS late-night host will not start his new gig until late August or early September, according to an industry insider familiar with the situation.
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Stephen Colbert may be in complete control of his New York studio, but on Monday he hosted "The Colbert Report" in Washington, D.C. And when you're in Washington, the president is the commander in chief. Which is why President Barack Obama was...

Nation, it may hurt to be reminded that "The Colbert Report" is winding down ahead of Stephen Colbert's transition to "The Late Show" on CBS, but before the "truthiest" host in the land signs off on Dec. 18, he still has a...

We all knew it was coming, but now we have the date: "The Colbert Report" is ending on Dec. 18.
Stephen Colbert announced the show's end date to his audience on Thursday's show while pitching the paperback version of his book, "America...

The subject is comedy. If it is not exactly true that it "can't get no respect," to quote the comic, it does get less than it deserves.
It has become commonplace to say that we are living in a New Golden Age of Television, or a Platinum Age...